FREE ON YOUTUBE Wim Wenders - Until The End Of The World

FREE ON YOUTUBE  Who is interested in production notes? For over a year, Wim Wenders filmed in 15 cities, eight countries and four continents. The story takes place in 1999 - in the future. The world of the future looks like ours - only less shabby, less violent and a little more modern or technologically advanced. This world is threatened by the fact that an atomic satellite has freed itself from its orbit and is speeding towards Earth. In this situation, in which people basically stopped living, a beautiful woman (Solveig Dommartin) meets a stranger (William Hurt). Outside on the street. It seems a bit like a movie noir, but the actual plot is still to begin. Wim Wenders movies often start with mysterious characters. And often they are road movies. Typical Wenders characters just appear out of nowhere. Then they get entangled in a series of coincidences and at the end there is insight. While the atom satellite moves towards the earth, the mysterious stranger continues his very own mission. It leads from Venice to Paris, then to San Francisco and finally to Asia. It is to end in Australia, where Wenders finds a kind of metaphysical Mecca. The beautiful woman follows him. She wants to find out what drives him. Those who now expect a classic plot will be disappointed. I would call it a visionary fantasy. The stranger's parents (Max von Sydow and Jeanne Moreau) live in an underground laboratory in the Australian outback. Did the stranger look for materials for his father? But that's the wrong question. Wenders' film seems as if he had improvised at the various locations. His long-time cameraman Robby Muller visually holds together what was perhaps born out of necessity. But that makes this mammoth project all the more interesting! At the time, when the film was shown in the cinema, it was agreed that Wenders had failed. Until The End Of The World most people just found it boring. Then something strange happened. Years later the work came out in a 3 DVD box. We put it in our video store and everybody loved the movie! They found that he had been far ahead of his time! Like Kubrick's "2001"! Even longer, supplemented by further scenes, it became obvious what Wenders wanted to achieve: not to tell a story, but to collect impressions. At the end there is a moral. This morality can be found in the Australian outback, in a place where the Aborigines have been telling each other their stories for centuries. Is that the future? After all, computers that visualize human dreams have already been introduced in the film. But what use is all this technology if it's going to be grilled by the atomic satellite anyway? We'd better concentrate on the traditional way of telling stories. Why should technology tell us how to dream?

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